Etiology Flashcards
Buddhist concept of disease:
Disease produced by cause + conditions:
its root 3 m p’s (attachment, hatred + close-mindedness) + ignorance
Ignorance: Marigpa: ignorant mind root of rebirth and chain of suffering and karma + cause of phy + mental d’s
Pain: suffering 8: birth, aging,sickness, death, separation from near + dear, meeting revolting objects, not finding desired objects + one’s own 5 aggregates
Karma: pos + neg + neutral results of previous deeds
Can’t change some karma
To be liberated from suffering: recognize + identitfy root of suffering
It’s antidote: Shine (samatha meditation)
Increase wisdom: Lakthong samadhi + Vipassana ( search + exp self grasping mind + emptiness)
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Greater Love + compassion : deep absorption + tranquility
Mindfulness meditation
Diagnose disease
Eliminate cause
Implement remedy
Achieve healthy state
MICROORGANISMS: Semsdang lusrin-Phrafung cause disorders tiny micro beings
360 wind male desire attachment
360 bile female bile hatred
360 phlegm neutral close mindedness
Médecine concept of disease
Distant cause: Ignorance
Particular cause: 3 mp’s: attachment hatred close mindedness
Near causes: 3 humours: Wind, Bile, Phlegm
IGNORANCE
When 3 mp’s in balance: good health ( Thames neme) maintained by
Right diet, right behavior, psychology, climate
If disturbed by wrong factors imbalance - disease
Internal cause: Mind - emotions - psy
Ext cause: Wrong diet, wrong behavior, unusual climate
TM: main cause: ignorant mind obscured lost wisdom eyes
Deep meditative concentration can reveal ignorance as cause of samsara + cause of suffering
3 main causes of disease:
Distant cause: ignorance I as self identity causes 3 mp’s attach, hatred, cm - wind, Bile, phlegm cause of phys + ment d’s
3 MENTAL POISONS:
ATTACHMENT: possessive mind from desire wind humor
Obsession, jealousy produce psychosomatic d’s
Dissatisfaction + disharmony: worries, jealousy, fear
Wind channel: body centre linked to nervous system linked to repro organs through sp chord to brain
HATRED: anger + hatred : Bile humor
Fire, heats + digests food, matures bc’s + burns body mind
Anger, aggressiveness, violence, destructive mind + jealousy
Burns produces infection, inflammation + bile d’s
Bile channel: right side of body liver + gb + brain + other parts
CLOSE MINDEDNESS: mental dullness + close- mindedness : Phlegm humour
Heavy + cold energy, foggy nature, lack of awareness, doubt, mistrust, stupidity, selfishness + confusion
Chronic obesity, cold d’s, depression, melancholy
Phlegm channel: lymphatic + endocrine: left side
Spleen, kidneys, brain + other body parts
NEAR CAUSES: 3 humors Wind, Bile and Phlegm
Human body:house w 3 pillars: 3 humors
Walls: 7 bc’s
Windows: sensory organs
Mind: inhabitant
Wind: mobility, lightness
Bile fire burns
Phlegm cold water, wetness
3 humors: barrier bet gd health + disease if weak or disharmony
Wind: cause of w d psychological imbalance
Bile: cause of fever + infection
Phlegm: cause of chronic digestive + phlegmatic d’s
What are the four immediate factors which can destabilize the 3 h’s?
1.Seasons and climates (Namdus) profound influence gradually changes h’s
2.Mind and emotions
3.Unwholesome food
4.Unwholesome behavior
Seasons: Spring body makes blood circulates at max level
Summer: sweat eliminates toxins
Autumn: body produces seed, concrete energy
Winter: produces sleep for continuation of life
2 Seasons, 2 solstices: energy polarities of increasing cold + hot temperatures which balance h’s
Winter solstice: Dehydration: 22/12 sun returns from South and goes to North mid June: winter, spring summer
Elemental energy: sharp, hot taste rough moon energy decreases
Beings’ Strength + health decreases
Summer solstice: Rehydration: 21/06 sun returns to South from North to mid Dec
Cooling: Long, wet season, earth cools’ rain + fresh cool winds
Summer, autumn, winter
Elemental quality: wet, sweet, sour + salty increase + strengthen beings
2 EQUINOXES: 20/03 Spring/ 22/09 autumn : day/night, equal length
The four seasons, a natural clock
Spring: rebirth and increase of temperature, mouth phlegm internal humidity increases
Summer: peak energy, hot humidity, sweating skin: cool and humid
Autumn: sun energy heat, decrease: hot oily and sharp, body balanced
Winter: cold and fresh energy sleeps skin: warm and dry
What are the 6 Medical seasons (dustug)?
Seasons help increase + decrease power of taste and quality of food
Seasons accumulate h’s that share same qualities
And decrease when their quality + temperature are opposite
3 stages of accumulation, manifestation and pacification: Sogdang- shisum
Summer + autumn: dominated by fire element: temperature increase, food: fire energy quality increase bile
Winter: water + wind element increase Wind + Phlegm
Early Spring: earth + air, astringent taste
Late Spring: water + air, bitter taste
Summer: fire + earth, sour taste
Autumn: fire + water, salty
Early winter: earth + water, sweet
Late winter: fire + air, pungent
Accumulation stage
3 Humours:
Wind: accumulâtes late Spring
Body, food + season quality: rough and light: increases Wind
Pacified in autumn in Asia in late summer in Europe
Oily sharp q of sun reduces W energy
Excess eating raw veg in Spring - Wind d
BILE
Acc summer
Body, food q oily sharp : incr Bile
Acc Manifests: late summer India /autumn EU
Pacifies: Autumn
Bile symptoms: nausea, bad digestion, headaches
Eating too much cold food n drinks in summer + air conditioning can expel dig fire: chronic dig d’s, blood circulation + rheumatic d’s
Phlegm:
Acc: winter early + late: body + food: Phlegm increasing like ice
Manifests: Spring excess eating raw food, salad, cold + heavy reduces metabolism leads to arthritis, rheumatism + phlegm d’s
Phlegm symptoms: rheumatism, arthritis, weak circulation, poor digestion
Pacified by sun heat, oiliness, sharpness dry Phlegm humidity
